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C3V ! V THE AMERICAN A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER.' 'S "AMERICA FOKAMEUICAKS" W. hold th.t.ll m.n.r. A.rten, wh.S.w AUwgUnoa toih. United" Sltf .llhout gmnul rewoilo.. ' '''KICK PIVEl.'KNTH Votom VI. 1. OMAUA, HEBRA8KA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 27, !S96, . Njmn S IT Was Responsible for the Or ganization of the A. P. A. And it Has Declared rnesdln War on the Enemies of the American Public Schools. One of the largest secret , political patriotic organizations the world has ever seen, and surely the greatest America has ever seen, Is that known as the American Protective Associa tion; or, as its enemies call it, the "A. P. A." This great organization had its rise from the same circumstances which brought the Order of United American Mechanics Into being the offensive ag gressions of foreign sentiment against Americans and American institutions. Its history and the work It has done, the slanders that have been and are being daily uttered against it, are known to all. Its influence in politics has been one of th most potent factors of the day. Whpver It has taken part in a political struggle It has been on the side of decency, fighting the fight of honesty against corruption and holding up the American flag. Unlike the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, it does not say that a man must be born in America to be an American or to belong to the organization, but it does say that he must be truly American in spirit If he expects to win the favors of the Ameri can people. It declares that a man cannot be a foreigner in sympathy and sentiment and be an American at the same time. It has declared unending war on the enemies of the American free school, on the debauchers of the franchise, on ballot-box stutters and on everything un-American, whether civil or ecclesiastical. Thus it has brought upon its head the vituperation, the slander and the venom of the political and ecclesiasti cal potboilers of all parties and creeds in the land. Its members, when covered, have repeatedly been dis charged from their situations and de nied the privilege of earning their dally bread, no matter how respectable, how intelligent or how faithful In the discharge of their duties, or what in alienable rights they may possess. But 1 the face of persecution it -has grown in numbers until today it naa upon its rolls over 3,000,000 members, while its influence extends over at least 1,000,000 more of voters, who have not taken its obligations, but who believe In and act upon its principles. It has been said that the A. P. A. consists principally of Orangemen from Canada and the provinces. This is not so. If its membership had been brought from Canada it would have practically depopulated that country. Over 90 per cent of its great membership are na tive born. The A. P. A. has the distinction of being the only American patrotic so ciety that has so far caused un-American foreigners to fear its influence that they have openly Instituted organlza tions to combat it The A. P. A. is now In its ninth year. It was organized in Clinton, Iowa, by Henry F. Bowers, a lawyer. He was born on the I2th of August, 1837, in the city of Baltimore, Md. He was educated, such education as he re ceived In Iowa, by the candle light of our fireside. He has been twice elected county recorder of Clinton county, Iowa, hav ing served an apprenticeship prior to that in both the clerk's and treasurer's offices of the county, also In the council of our city of Clinton, Iowa. After his term of office expired c was admitted to the bar and practiced law.and is still in the practice, having been admitted to the supreme com pf the state and district and circuit courts of the United States. He held a commission under Gov ernor Gear, now United States senator from Iowa, with the rank of lieutenant- colonel of cavalry, a special commis sion being given as a reward of merit for services rendered In the days of darkness id our nation, when every heart and hand was needed. His family consists, at the present time, of himself, two sons and a daugh ter. His church relation is that or a Methodist, having inherited it through Nelson Reed, my mother's uncle, who was a co-worker with Dr. Coke in es tablished Methodist in America. He is the founder of the American Protective Association; was its su preme president for six years; also the founder of the Woman's American Pro tective Association; also the Junior Order of the American Protective As sociation. Of the former, by act or the Supreme Council in Cleveland, Ohio, he was made a life member of the su preme council and the supreme ex ecutive board. In the W. A. P. A., by act of the supreme council, he was made an honorary member tor life. The special evils that gave rise to the organization of the American Pro tective Association were the attempted obliteration of all principles governing our public Institutions, more especially those of the public schools of this na tion, by the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and the subversion of all things, moneys, properties and offices, to their own use and behalf. Second, the nature and character of the American Protective Association, as an organization, and its duties, ob jects and purposes were for the re versal of those acquirements and to educate the people in the laws and! rights under our national constitution and to, If possible, which I am con vineed is within the reach of the near future, the independence of the Ameri can Roman Catholic Church of the foreign head. This can only be done by educating the masses, showing our good will toward them as a church or ganization. but dicountenancing and vigorously protesting against it as political organization under and by di rection of a foreign potentate, and to convince them by our ballot that w mean what we say. The American Protective Association Is presided over by a supreme council of delegates from the various states who meet once a year. The supreme headquarters are lo cated at Washington, D. C. The present head of the council is Supreme President John W. Echols a prominent lawyer of Atlanta, Ga. The A. P. A. is non-partisan in politics but Its present supreme president is a democrat. C. B. Story in The Re public. THE St'KIPTCRAL BEAST. Elder A. VY. Itartlelt Believes It Refers to Romanism. Elder A. W. Bartlett preached last evening, says the Chicago Inter Ocean of November 23, at the Seventh-Day Advent Church on Forty-sixth street, taking for h's text: And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his head the name of blasphemy. Anu the beast which I saw was like unto a leonard. and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written In the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Rev. xlii., 1 '2, 8. He said: "The sea In this text, as in Daniel vli.. 2. is a smybol of multitudes, na tions, tongues, and people. (Rev. xvli. 5.) Daniel saw four great beasts, sym bolizing dominant world empires, rls ing out of the ever-restless surging sea of humanity, as the result of winds blowing upon it, or strife among the nations. So the beast of our text sym bolizes a mighty government among men to arise in a similar manner. . "Observe that this beast includes the characteristics! of all the symbols of Daniel. It has the mouth of the lion the symbol of Babylon; the feet of bear, the symbol of Medo-Fersiar we body of a leopard, the symbol 'Of Graecia, and ten horns, which was a distinctive characteristic of the fourth great iron-toothed beast, which sym bolized Rome. This shows that this composite beast Is the lineal descend ant and successor of all these symbolic empires, which have been dominated by Satan or the dragon, through one continuous system of opposition to the people of God. "But what does this beast symbolize A wild beast in prophecy represents an earthly government apart from the normal, legitimate, civil rule which is in harmony with God's plan of govern ment among sinful men, and to which he commands all men to be subject. All the great beasts of Daniel were sym bols of religion political empires, or leading human governments after hav ing been perverted from their normal functions as purely civil powers. There fore we conclude that the beast of our text, the lineal descendant of these sym bolic governments, is a symbol of the Papacy or the unholy union of Chris tainty with the state legalized Chris tianity. That the union of church and state is here smyboiized is evident from the following: " 'And they worshiped the ' beast. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to over come them; and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are written in the book, of life,' etc, (verses 2, 7, 8). "This beast Is worshiped, and com pels the worship of itself, and per secutes or makes waragalnstthe saints. It Is, therefore, a religious power, for it Is worshiped. It also has civil authority, for it makes war and puts to death the saints of God. ' A purely civil government never persecutes for religion's sake, nor can it invade the inalienable rights of con science. Its object will be rather to protest the conscience of all alike, ir respective of religious belief. It can only take cognizance of civil acts, or the relations between man and man, rather than between man and con science. "A purely eccleslsatlcal organization cannot persecute. It has not the power to Impose fines, imprison, take prop erty or life, however much it may de sire so to do. It is a union of religion with the state that begets that mon ster of hyproclsy and cruelty, that re lentless enemy of civil and religious liberty the Papacy that professedly Christian nation symbolized by the beast of our text. "And the dragoon (Satan)) gave him (the beast) his power, and his seat (throne), and great authority (verse 2). From these words we learn that Satan's power wisdom, and cruelty center In this Infernal system of legal ized religion. It Is Satan's kingdom upon earth, and from this throne his power is exerted against Christ and his people and liberty. It has been well said that the effect of such a system is blasphemy to God, the unholy exaltation of man, putting man In the place of God, and persecut ing the most sincere, courageous, and holy. Such a system puts itself in the place of God as lord over conscience, and seta itself forth as man's savior and judge, insofar as it assumes to direct his belief and worship. It has always thus resulted, and always will Neither do sincere men as rulers make It better, but rather worse; for the more sincere Is the belief In such a sya tem the more devotion to and mor zeal in carrying It out will be man! tested. It Is because of this that some of the best and most conscientious em perors of pagan Rome became the worst persecutors of Christians, not merely because they were Christians, but be- cause they were transgressors of the system under which Rome exlBted. The gods and their worship were so Inter woven with the laws of the state that It was Impossible for a Christian not to be a transgressor, a rebel,' a'traitor, an 'enemy of the state, because not friendly to the gods." " 'And I saw one of bis (the beast) heads, as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed; and all the world wandered after the beast. (Rev. xlii.. 3.) The Papal head of the beast, that system of legalized Christianity that prevailed from the time of Constantine until the light and liberty of the gospel of Christ preached by the reformers wounded It to death is to be healed or restored to more than Its former power and authority. The beast is to be a living, acting power up to the second coming of Christ, whose coming is to be immediately preceded by its revival and persecu tlon of the remnant of the seed of 'the woman' (last generation of Christians) "A thrilling sign of the near auvent of Christ is the present world-wide re vival of the Papacy. We would not be understood as applying the word 'Pa pacy' to the Roman Catholic Church ex cluslvely for when the religion of Greek, or Roman Catholic, or Protes tant is enforced by the state, there Is the Papacy. "Everywhere the tendency of the church Is to seek the aid of the state In her desire for power. Preachers and our great Christian young people's or ganizations have gone Into politics to stay. 'Creeping up from the darkness of the dark ages, this hiedous monster, Papacy, is intently watching to seize the throat of liberty in our land and set back the dial hand of progress of cen turies. It thrusts itself into the noon day of the opening of the twentieth centrury, not that It might be benefited by its light and freedom, but that it may suppress and obscure them. 'The forces are now marshaling for the greatest and final conflict of the ages. This battle is being fought be tween righteousness and sin, liberty and slavery, the traditions and command ments of men and the word of God. Michael (Christ) and his angels again fight against the dragon (Satan) and his angels. Satan, through the fapacy, or legalized Christianity, and Christ through the 'remnant church, which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus,' now form the line of battle. (Rev. xll., 17.) The whole world Is rapidly taking its stand on either side; but victory is sure in Christ only by steadfast obedience to all the commandments of God." Rome's Military Orders. The Chicago delegates to the biennial convention of the Catholic Knights of America returned from Decatur Sat urday. The following officers were elected for the ensuing two years: Very Rev. 0. J. Macken, Decatur, spiritual ad viser; Henry A. Pecher, Chicago, presi dent, Branch 314; B. Mussman, Effing ham, vice president, Branch 174; J. S Maloney, TannerCity, secretary, Branch 727; N. Eversmann, Effingham, treas urer, Branch 174; P. A. Cox, Red Bud, trustee, Branch 266; Rev. C. J Eschmann, Cario, trustee. Branch 230. P. Morrissey of Danville was presi dent of the convention. The Catholic Knights of America was founded In Nashville, Tenn., in 1877, under the auspices of very Rev. P. J. Feehan, bishop of Nashville, and now Archbishop of Chicago. In 1880 the order was chartered. On the death of a member, $2,000, $1,000 of $500 goes to the delict or relicts. There is now a re serve fund of over $340,000, to be drawn upon only in the event of a great calam ity or epidemic. There are 700 branches, with a membership of 24,000, in nearly every state In the union. Up to No vember 1, 1896, $7,007,133.35 has been paid to beneficiaries. There Is a military division, number Ing 4,000, under Major General Leo J, Kudeski. Illinois has two regiments, commanded by Colonel Thomas J. Ford of the Chicago Zouaves and Colonel Edward McCusher of Danville. They are attached to General A. W. Jager's ongade. The supreme council will convene in Mobile, Ala., in May, 1897. Inter Ocean. With Protestant Money. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 11, 1896. Last month the Roman clergy met at Grafton, North Dakota, to lay plans for the building of a cathedral at Fargo; and they laid them, too. They will circulate a subscription list throughtout the state, and everybody will be asked to donate. The lady beggars will canvas the state and a straw vote," as it were, will be taken. North Dakota is about 10 to 1 Protes tant, hence Protestant money will build a $50,000 cathedral in Fargo for Rome. Although nothing of the kind was stated, (and the Protestants do notknow it), there will be a list made ud of those not subscribing to the fund, which will be kept for "future refer ence." Rome always does this. There is not an A. P. A. council in the state of North Dakota, hence it is unlikely that any trouble will be experienced In raising the $50,000. Zambot. in Houtztlale Observer. rush to wmm Plain Truths From an ex Member of That Church. Roman Catholics Bare Sot Open Their Ejea, Their Ears or Their Con science. At the meeting at People's Temple at Boston last Sunday Rev. Mr. Murray read the scriptures and Rev. Mr. Faunce led in prayer, after which MIbs Belle Mozart Bang very finely the solo, "I Will Extol Tliee." Dr. Powers of Chelsea, was then In troduced and Bpokefor a few moments on the part taken by the various pa triotlc orders In the recent election. As according to the daily press, they cut no figure at all, he wrote to Supreme President Echols asking for latest in formation. To his first query, "Has cur order come out of the campr'n as strong, efficient and united as it went Into it," the answer was emphatically Yes." Dr. Power's second question as to the results in el"-'-- men to con gress and other official positions, favor able to the order, received likewise a very encouraging reply. Out of forty- eight congressmen from Illinois, four teen when Interviewed pledged them selves to A. P. A. principles; one was doubtful and three against. To his next query. "What Is the great duty of the hour?" the answer was to build up our organization. We should bo prepared to fight harder than 'ever for our principles. The state secretary of Oregon wrote that in all the "doubt ful states" it was the vote of the pa triotic organizations that turned the Bcale for MeKlnley. 1 he speaker of the afternoon, Evan gelist Thoinas Rush was then intro duced. Alter thanking the audienro for their cordial greeting, he said humorously that he never wished to differ from good Brother Bradbury, but the latter in his speech of intro duction bad alluded to him as never having had a college education, when the fact was that he did attend col lege two years, and one of his teachers In that Institution could not write his own name. Mr. Rush spoke in substance as fol lows: . ' i ' My Roman Catholic ft lead, I am going to talk very plainly to you. I hold In my hand the most authentic ecclesiastical history Rome has ever put forth, a work which has the papal sanction; and also the book which contains her system of laws. But I wish my Catholic friends to under stand distinctly that I dtd not leave the Romish church for any quarrel I had with It If I could only convey you to that sublime Book of books, the Holy Bible, and show you the Joy that is In my heart, even with my wife on what I fear is her dying bed that dear wife who says to me every time I leave her, 'Thomas, you will not be alone. The dear Jesus will be with you; and I shall not be alone for he will be with me' you would understand why came out I challenge any Roman Catholic present to disprove the statements I shall make here today. Rome knows that we tell the truth. She says we are lying about her. God knowB there is no need to lie about her. Take but that one book, the Douay Bible, and that will paint her black enough. My subject today Is 'The Inside and Outside of Romanism. I claim to know something about both sides. Brother Bradbury has remarked about my being taken into a prelate's palace when I was but 7 years old. That prelate was my mother's cousin. In his household I had unusual oppor tunities for studying Rome from the inside. I remember that on one oc casion the archbishop gave a great banquet, and the big dining hall was packed with priests. At the close of the banquet after every imaginable dainty had been served, the whisky was passed around, and the archbishop and one other high ecclesiastical dig nitary, were the only ones able to rise from the table. Every student of history knows that Rome has always been trying to make Protestants think she is not so black as she Is painted. For thirteen years l was in that machine, and I know all about It I left it because God opened my eyes and showed me the need of a living Christ. She is a gigantic fraud, and has been for eight hundred years. Go to any Catholic book-store, and you win De confronted by a picture of St Patrick wearing a mitre, when it is a historic fact that the mitre was not known until the 11th century; seven hundred years after St Patrick was dead and gone to glory! Rome tries to make you believe that she reads and studies the Bible, I am a poor man, but if there is a Roman Catholic priest who will take me into any Romish cathedral, and produce a BiDie or Testament within Its wall I will give him $50. Some of you may say that you have seen the Bible on the priest's desk the same as in Protes tant churches. No, that was not a Bible at all. It was the missal, the Romish mass book. Rome commands celibacv. Yet w are told In first Timothy, third chap ter, second verse, that a bishon must be blameless, the husband of one wif-' and in the fourth verse, "one that ruloth well his own house, having his children in suDjection with all gravity.' Thus we 6ee that her law in this matter In opposed to the law of God. But does she keep her own lawT Leo IX., Nich-1 oloa II., Alexander II., and Pope III! debrand, had to issue stringent taws agaiiiKt the priests living in concubin age. And they are worse today. You remember the case of Arch bitdiop Puecll, how he and bis brother nibbed the poor people of Cincinnati of five millions of dollars; of Father Patrick of New York who robbed poor Mary Sheridan on her dying bed. Af ter giving her extreme unction, he asked her, 'Have you any money, Mrs. Sheridan?" She told him she had $750, which he took; and not content with this, searched between the two mat treascs and stole her two bank books, representing nearly $5,000. Mrs. Sheri dan got well, and when she tried to get back her stolen money she found the priest who had robbed her In the hos pital suffering from a shameful disease. Don't forget, my brother and sister, that while these poor girls led astray through the confessional may not be your girls, your daughters, yet they are somebody a girls, somebody a daugh ter, and It Is your duty to say that sueh a cesspool of corruption shall not exist In your midst. There Is not a priest today who Is not making his living by false pre tenses. You must admit this, unless you are willing to admit that there Is such a place as purgatory. I challenge you to give us cne case of a man being excommunicated for his Immoral life. Go to the North End, and see how many ot the bar keepers and frequenters cf the dance halls nrd other places of inirnitv are members of her communion. Was it because of his morals - McOlynn was excomm'unlcated? No; he was ex communicated because he dared assert his rights as an American, and say a word for the Little Red School house and Old Glory. During that time not a Roman Catholic churca would have allowed McGlynn within the fence, and had he died no Catholic cemetery would have given him burial. Yet in 1890, on Endlcott street, In the city of Boston, what did we see? The dead form of a notorious prize fighter, rest ing in the precincts ot a Catholic church, with a pair of boxing gloves laid on the casket, and Father Scan lan sprinkling it with holy water! We have been called bigots, but my Roman friend, who are the genuine bigots? Did you ever hear of a Roman Catholic leaving so much as 50 cents to a Protestant church? A priest asks in a Roman Catholic magazine called The Pastor, why this is. You know that only a priest has a right to ask ques tions. You must let the priest see for you, but keep your eyes shut, hear for you, but yours ears must be sealed, speak for you, but your lips must be dumb. You can open nothing but your pocket-book and that you may open as wide ax you haw a mind. The priest asks, 'Is it not ungracious of Catholics to refuse to give to Protes tant institutions!' And the answer is 'Protestants hold that you may be saved In any church, but Catholics ad mit of no salvation outside their own communion. Protestants will be damned anyhow, and you may as well get all you can out of them In this world." Mr. Rush gave other quotations, showing that this Is the Romish doc trine, and that taught without ques tion in parochial schools. He said that Rome attacks the morals of Protes tants, saying that matrimony outside of the church Is "concubinage of the filthiest kind," and yet one pope for a large money consideration not long ago allowed a certain prince to marry his neice, and another one his mother-in-law. And the Pilot, owned by Arch bishop Williams, the organ of Roman Ism in Boston, did not have an issue for fifteen years which did not contain the standing advertisement of prize fighter, John L. Sullivan. Speaking of Rome's claim to be an ally of the temperance cause, Mr. Rush alluded scathingly to the nuns of Brooklyn, who run a beer shop in the basement; and how he saw a load of beer kegs going to the nun nery in Cambridgport for St. Patrick's eve. But why did they not go to some priest's house Instead of a nunnery? Rome and Rum are Siamese twins. Cut the head off of one and the death of the other is not far distant. He hoped to see the time when the fair women of our land will have the ballot. A woman's vote could not be bought for a glass of whisky. "Rome claims to love 'Old Glory.' She does not love It worth a cent. Yet there are thousands of Roman Catholics who hurrah for the stars and stripes, and refuse to send their children to the parochial schools. When you meet such give them a cordial greeting, and say, God bless you for your back bone.' Rome controls the press. On this platform for over eight years you have naa Borne of the profoundest thinkers, and most brilliant divines that are in the world today. Has the press given you any notice? Not a single one, but it will give plenty of space to report a Jesuit address. Thank God, we have today two papers that are not dead the American Citizen and the Woman's Voice, and it does me good to see them wherever I am, and think of the noble men and women who stand at their head. I thank you for your kind greeting ana l nope if we never meet in this world again we shall meet beyond the River of Time." Woman's Voice. KAIVS PASTORAL. What He Thinks or Mixed Marriages and the Public Schools. Archbishop Kain has Just issued an other "Pastorial Letter" to the "clergy and laity of the arch-diocesa of St Louis," which is awakening considera ble Interest. On the subject of Chris tian burial he has this to say: "When a Catholic has not only aban doned the practice of his religion, but lived notoriously wicked life and has died without any sign of repentance the rhun h Kliould not be asked to per form her sacred rites over his dead Iwdy. "If. at the eleventh hour, the poor nl niier, like the repentant thief on the rrottH, seeks to make bis peace with tiod, the Church will not deny him Christian burial. But In this rase, it his crimes have been notorious, his relatives in nut not ask that he be burled with all the solemn services with which the Church follows her faithful children to the grave." We wonder what thereverned gentle man would do with a modern Voltatr would he bury him as did bis pre decessors the noted Infidel. On the subject of mixed marriages the arrhblHbnp has this to say: "The Church exacts a solemn promise from the non-Catholle, first, that the Catholic shall enjoy complete liberty of conscience, and, second, that all children born of such marriage shall he baptized and brought up In the Catholic religion. Unless this two-fold promise Is made, it la useless to apply for a dlNpenHation permuting such marriage, for It could not be granted. Hereafter these mixed marriages must take place In the rectory or priest's residence, and not at the home of the contracting parties. Eve Catholic should know thnt by contracting mar rlago before a Protestant minister he Incurs ex-communcnr)! that Is. y his own act he !s cut off froip member-' ship with the church. It sometimes happens, too, that such ma. rii.huc-. on account of annulling Impediments, are absolutely Invalid In the eyes of the church." s' The Protestant that would enter Into a marriage contract under such stlpula tlons Is unworthy the name. Of fynrse he Incurs ex-communlcatlon, fof this, according to Catholic nonsense Is ono of the sacraments or --.&" jurisprud ence, all persons married by any one gave a prieat is living In open adul tery. His neat treats of "Christian Ed ucation," thus: "Let them attend schools where tho principles of our holy faith are recog nized as the first principles of all earthly science. We cannot caution you too strongly against those schools where divine faith Is either openly traduced or silently ignored, or where secular teaching Is placed above tho divine." This, of course, every one will readily understand to be a thrust at our public schools, upon which Cath olics have ever waged a ceaseless war fare. They hate a public school aa a certain animal does a red flag. Ha also dwells at some length on Catholto societies and "Forbidden Societies;" placing among the latter those detes tableto Catholics Orders known as Maaojfc Knights of Py.hla, Odd Fol lows, and of course, Sons of Temper ance. American Baptist Flag, Still Strained. NEW YORK, Nov. 16. The strained relations which have existed for so long between Archbishop Ireland and Archbishop Corrlgan were given an other sharp shock of seerance today by the publication of the" remarks of Rev. Father Phelan of St Louis, In bis paper, the Western Watchmaa. While Cardinal Satolll was here- exerted all his diplomatic craft to re strain any outbreak from the supporters of the rival archbishops. Archbishop Corrlgan is said to have assured Satolll that he was eager to meet Archbishop Ireland in the utmost friendliness, and desired above all things to avoid any thing resembling contention. Archbis hop Ireland's submission came, too, but not as promptly as that of his rival, and is said to have annoyed, not only Cardinal Satolll, but also the Pope, it is from this time that the western arch bishop seemed to lose his influence in Washington. 1 Priests here say that if the cardinal should apply for a coadjutor his pref erence would undoubtedly be lor Arch bishop Ireland, but that the power of Archbishop Corrigan would undoubtedly be exercised in preventing his rival's selection. It Is said that Father Phe lan's article, it It has done nothing else, has served to prove that the ap parent peace in the Roman Catholic church in America, so much asaured by Cardinal Satolll while he was here, has not assumed a permanent condition, and it will require all the ability of Archbishop Martinelll actually to real ize It. A Disgrace. The mayoe of New York has issued a public appeal to the churches ot that city to permit the use of their Sunday school rooms five days In the week for public school purposes, thousands of children being unable to get Into the overcrowded school buildings. Ex change. It is a dhigrace to this nation that such a state ol affairs exists anywhere within our borders, but New York is not alone In this particular. While sleepy and weak-kneed Protestants slumbered the enemy was busy sowing tares. Wherever the Romanists have held sway the public schools have been degraded. Philadelphia has been termed the only American city In the United States, but Romanism seems to have been doing its work there, too, as that city Is also sadly lacking in ac commodations for her school children. Will Americans everrise above and, with a heavy hand ami kie black brood that Is making thU try a by-word and reproach: other nations, depriving the rV cration of the education nec( fit them for lives of usefulln" gradually degrading us as a nati Exchange. it a